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Category: Amazon Athena

How Amazon Devices scaled and optimized real-time demand and supply forecasts using serverless analytics

Every day, Amazon devices process and analyze billions of transactions from global shipping, inventory, capacity, supply, sales, marketing, producers, and customer service teams. This data is used in procuring devices’ inventory to meet Amazon customers’ demands. With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics […]

Handle UPSERT data operations using open-source Delta Lake and AWS Glue

Many customers need an ACID transaction (atomic, consistent, isolated, durable) data lake that can log change data capture (CDC) from operational data sources. There is also demand for merging real-time data into batch data. Delta Lake framework provides these two capabilities. In this post, we discuss how to handle UPSERTs (updates and inserts) of the […]

How BookMyShow saved 80% in costs by migrating to an AWS modern data architecture

This is a guest post co-authored by Mahesh Vandi Chalil, Chief Technology Officer of BookMyShow. BookMyShow (BMS), a leading entertainment company in India, provides an online ticketing platform for movies, plays, concerts, and sporting events. Selling up to 200 million tickets on an annual run rate basis (pre-COVID) to customers in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, […]

Analyze real-time streaming data in Amazon MSK with Amazon Athena

Recent advances in ease of use and scalability have made streaming data easier to generate and use for real-time decision-making. Coupled with market forces that have forced businesses to react more quickly to industry changes, more and more organizations today are turning to streaming data to fuel innovation and agility. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache […]

Query cross-account Amazon DynamoDB tables using Amazon Athena Federated Query

Amazon DynamoDB is ideal for applications that need a flexible NoSQL database with low read and write latencies and the ability to scale storage and throughput up or down as needed without code changes or downtime. You can use DynamoDB for use cases including mobile apps, gaming, digital ad serving, live voting, audience interaction for live […]

Perform multi-cloud analytics using Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Athena Federated Query, and Microsoft Azure Synapse

In this post, we show how to use Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Athena Federated Query to build dashboards and visualizations on data that is stored in Microsoft Azure Synapse databases. Organizations today use data stores that are best suited for the applications they build. Additionally, they may also continue to use some of their legacy […]

Explore your data lake using Amazon Athena for Apache Spark

Amazon Athena now enables data analysts and data engineers to enjoy the easy-to-use, interactive, serverless experience of Athena with Apache Spark in addition to SQL. You can now use the expressive power of Python and build interactive Apache Spark applications using a simplified notebook experience on the Athena console or through Athena APIs. For interactive […]

How ENGIE automates the deployment of Amazon Athena data sources on Microsoft Power BI

ENGIE—one of the largest utility providers in France and a global player in the zero-carbon energy transition—produces, transports, and deals in electricity, gas, and energy services. With 160,000 employees worldwide, ENGIE is a decentralized organization and operates 25 business units with a high level of delegation and empowerment. ENGIE’s decentralized global customer base had accumulated […]

Enrich VPC Flow Logs with resource tags and deliver data to Amazon S3 using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the network traffic flows going to and from network interfaces in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Visibility to the network […]

Reduce cost and improve query performance with Amazon Athena Query Result Reuse

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run on datasets at petabyte scale. You can use Athena to query […]